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Grinding performance and workpiece integrity when superabrasive edge routing carbon fibre reinforced plastic (CFRP) composites (2012)
Journal Article
Soo, S. L., Shyha, I., Barnett, T., Aspinwall, D., & Sim, W.-M. (2012). Grinding performance and workpiece integrity when superabrasive edge routing carbon fibre reinforced plastic (CFRP) composites. CIRP Annals - Manufacturing Technology, 61(1), 295-298. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cirp.2012.03.042

Data is presented for wheel wear, cutting forces and workpiece integrity when high speed routing 10 mm thick CFRP laminates using single layer electroplated diamond and CBN grinding points as opposed to standard end milling tools. A 60,000 rpm retrof... Read More about Grinding performance and workpiece integrity when superabrasive edge routing carbon fibre reinforced plastic (CFRP) composites.

“The Ladybird,” Disenchantment and the First World War (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2012, April). “The Ladybird,” Disenchantment and the First World War. Paper presented at D.H. Lawrence, his Contemporaries, and the Great War, Arras, France

This paper sees D.H. Lawrence’s The Ladybird (1923) as part of a developing discourse of disenchantment which followed the First World War. Literary critics and historians tend to see disenchantment, or disillusionment, as a response to unspecified... Read More about “The Ladybird,” Disenchantment and the First World War.

Co-production in Public Services Management: the view of providers (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
McMillan, J., & Fenwick, J. (2012, April). Co-production in Public Services Management: the view of providers. Paper presented at 16th Annual Conference of the International Research Society for Public Management, University of Tor Vergata, Rome

Joseph O'Neil's Netherland and 9/11 Fiction (2012)
Journal Article
Keeble, A. (2012). Joseph O'Neil's Netherland and 9/11 Fiction. European Journal of American Culture, 31(1), 55-71. https://doi.org/10.1386/ejac.31.1.55_1

This article argues that Joseph O’Neil’s Netherland (2008) self-consciously addresses some of the problematic aspects of the emerging canon of ‘9/11 fiction’. Netherland subverts one of the dominant thematic rubrics of the canon, marriage and relatio... Read More about Joseph O'Neil's Netherland and 9/11 Fiction.

Costs and constraints conspire to produce honest signaling: insights from an ant queen pheromone (2012)
Journal Article
Holman, L. (2012). Costs and constraints conspire to produce honest signaling: insights from an ant queen pheromone. Evolution, 66(7), 2094-2105. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2012.01603.x

Signal costs and evolutionary constraints have both been proposed as ultimate explanations for the ubiquity of honest signaling, but the interface between these two factors is unclear. Here, I propose a pluralistic interpretation, and use game theory... Read More about Costs and constraints conspire to produce honest signaling: insights from an ant queen pheromone.

Improving MTM-UAS to predetermine automotive maintenance times (2012)
Journal Article
Di Gironimo, G., Di Martino, C., Lanzotti, A., Marzano, A., & Russo, G. (2012). Improving MTM-UAS to predetermine automotive maintenance times. International Journal on Interactive Design and Manufacturing, 6(4), 265-273. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12008-012-0158-8

The preventive knowledge of serviceability times is a critical factor for the quantification of after-sales services costs of a vehicle. Predetermined motion time system are frequently used to set labor rates in industry by quantifying the amount of... Read More about Improving MTM-UAS to predetermine automotive maintenance times.

How to halve ploidy during meiosis – Lessons from budding yeast (2012)
Journal Article
Kerr, G., Sarkar, S., & Arumugam, P. (2012). How to halve ploidy during meiosis – Lessons from budding yeast. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 69(18), 3037-3051. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00018-012-0974-9

Maintenance of ploidy in sexually reproducing organisms requires a specialized form of cell division called meiosis that generates genetically diverse haploid gametes from diploid germ cells. Meiotic cells halve their ploidy by undergoing two rounds... Read More about How to halve ploidy during meiosis – Lessons from budding yeast.

Understanding innovation adoption : effects of orientation, pressure and control on adoption (2012)
Journal Article
Unsworth, K., Sawang, S., Murray, J., Norman, P., & Sorbello, T. (2012). Understanding innovation adoption : effects of orientation, pressure and control on adoption. International Journal of Innovation Management, 16(01), Article 1250004. https://doi.org/10.1142/s1363919611003593

We develop and test a theoretically-based integrative framework of key proximal factors (orientation, pressure, and control) that helps to explain the effects of more general factors (the organisation's strategy, structure, and environment) on intent... Read More about Understanding innovation adoption : effects of orientation, pressure and control on adoption.

Film‐based creative arts enquiry: qualitative researchers as auteurs (2012)
Journal Article
Wood, M., & Brown, S. (2012). Film‐based creative arts enquiry: qualitative researchers as auteurs. Qualitative Research Journal, 12(1), 130-147. https://doi.org/10.1108/14439881211222787

Purpose: inspired by an exciting revival of interest in the working methods and processes of the creative arts we
make use of the auteur approach to film production to further develop knowledge about sensuous methodologies
in qualitative research.... Read More about Film‐based creative arts enquiry: qualitative researchers as auteurs.

A review of the influence of corporate governance on the banking crises in the United Kingdom and Germany (2012)
Journal Article
Ross, A., & Crossan, K. (2012). A review of the influence of corporate governance on the banking crises in the United Kingdom and Germany. Corporate governance : the international journal of business in society, 12(2), 215-225. https://doi.org/10.1108/14720701211214098

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of corporate governance structures in the UK and Germany addressing the extent to which corporate governance structures may have been a contributory factor to the recent banking crisis. Fo... Read More about A review of the influence of corporate governance on the banking crises in the United Kingdom and Germany.

Entrepreneurship and the social integration of new minorities: Iranian hospitality entrepreneurs in Scotland (2012)
Journal Article
Mostajer Haghighi, A., & Lynch, P. (2012). Entrepreneurship and the social integration of new minorities: Iranian hospitality entrepreneurs in Scotland. Tourism review of AIEST--International Association of Scientific Experts in Tourism = Revue de tourisme, 67(1), 4-10. https://doi.org/10.1108/16605371211216323

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to look at perspectives of new minority entrepreneurs towards entrepreneurship, either as a facilitator or as a barrier to the integration of minorities. The research objective is to explore the role of hospita... Read More about Entrepreneurship and the social integration of new minorities: Iranian hospitality entrepreneurs in Scotland.

Networking and managers' career success in the Malaysian public sector: The moderating effect of managerial level (2012)
Journal Article
Mohd Rasdi, R., Garavan, T. N., & Ismail, M. (2012). Networking and managers' career success in the Malaysian public sector: The moderating effect of managerial level. European Journal of Training and Development, 36(2/3), 195-212. https://doi.org/10.1108/03090591211204715

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate how managerial level moderates the relationships between networking behaviours and career success (objective and subjective) in the context of a public sector organisation in Malaysia.Design/meth... Read More about Networking and managers' career success in the Malaysian public sector: The moderating effect of managerial level.

A review of international HRD: incorporating a global HRD construct (2012)
Journal Article
Garavan, T. N., & Carbery, R. (2012). A review of international HRD: incorporating a global HRD construct. European Journal of Training and Development, 36(2/3), 129-157. https://doi.org/10.1108/03090591211215579

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to review published conceptual and research papers within the field of international, comparative and cross‐cultural HRD.Design/methodology/approach – The paper's approach is a targeted literature review focusing o... Read More about A review of international HRD: incorporating a global HRD construct.

Effects of drop-out on efficacy estimates in five Cochrane reviews of popular antipsychotics for schizophrenia: Drop-out in Cochrane reviews of antipsychotics (2012)
Journal Article
Hutton, P., Morrison, A. P., Yung, A. R., Taylor, P. J., French, P., & Dunn, G. (2012). Effects of drop-out on efficacy estimates in five Cochrane reviews of popular antipsychotics for schizophrenia: Drop-out in Cochrane reviews of antipsychotics. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 126(1), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0447.2012.01858.x

Objective:
Our aim was to find out how Cochrane reviews of five popular or frequently prescribed second-generation antipsychotics in the UK (olanzapine, risperidone, quetiapine, amisulpride and aripiprazole) approached the problem of high drop-out i... Read More about Effects of drop-out on efficacy estimates in five Cochrane reviews of popular antipsychotics for schizophrenia: Drop-out in Cochrane reviews of antipsychotics.

Discussion Forums as an assessment Tool in Online Learning (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mahoney, C. (2012, April). Discussion Forums as an assessment Tool in Online Learning. Presented at Academic Development Conference, Edinburgh

Mahoney, C. (2012, April). Discussion Forums as an assessment Tool in Online Learning. Presented at Academic Development Conference, Edinburgh.

A framework to inform PSS Conceptual Design by using system-in-use data (2012)
Journal Article
Hussain, R., Lockett, H., & Annamalai Vasantha, G. V. (2012). A framework to inform PSS Conceptual Design by using system-in-use data. Computers in Industry, 63(4), 319-327. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compind.2012.02.013

Both the Product-Service System (PSS) literature and industry express a need to close the design loop by using product-in-use data to inform PSS Conceptual Design. Nevertheless, how to actually accomplish this is largely unknown. This research makes... Read More about A framework to inform PSS Conceptual Design by using system-in-use data.

The effects of electrode misplacement on clinicians’ interpretation of the standard 12-lead electrocardiogram (2012)
Journal Article
Bond, R., Finlay, D., Nugent, C., Breen, C., Guldenring, D., & Daly, M. (2012). The effects of electrode misplacement on clinicians’ interpretation of the standard 12-lead electrocardiogram. European Journal of Internal Medicine, 23(7), 610-615. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejim.2012.03.011

Introduction
This study investigates how a particular incorrect electrode configuration affects the 12-lead Electrocardiogram (ECG).

Methods
A correct and an incorrect 12-lead ECG were extracted from a 192-lead BSPM. This was done for 232 BSPMs... Read More about The effects of electrode misplacement on clinicians’ interpretation of the standard 12-lead electrocardiogram.

Intrinsic determinants of a population trend in timing of breeding in the wandering albatross (2012)
Journal Article
Lewis, S., Nussey, D. H., Wood, A. G., Croxall, J. P., & Phillips, R. A. (2012). Intrinsic determinants of a population trend in timing of breeding in the wandering albatross. Oikos, 121(12), 2061-2071. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.20293.x

Numerous studies of wild animal species have documented that population level responses to environmental change are underpinned by individual level phenotypic plasticity. However, where the relationship between an individual trait and a climate varia... Read More about Intrinsic determinants of a population trend in timing of breeding in the wandering albatross.